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I hope Ben is back in 2 weeks for the battle in Baltimore. I'd hate to see the Ravens beat the Steelers twice without him.

I hate this overconfident feeling a lot of Ravens fans are getting. In this statement you're making it seem like a foregone conclusion the Ravens will come into Pittsburgh and beat the Steelers. I think we are the favorites due to the injury, but this is still going to be an incredibly tough game. I just hope the players aren't writing this one off as a win like some of our fans..._________________
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I hope Ben is back in 2 weeks for the battle in Baltimore. I'd hate to see the Ravens beat the Steelers twice without him.

I hate this overconfident feeling a lot of Ravens fans are getting. In this statement you're making it seem like a foregone conclusion the Ravens will come into Pittsburgh and beat the Steelers. I think we are the favorites due to the injury, but this is still going to be an incredibly tough game. I just hope the players aren't writing this one off as a win like some of our fans...

I think you're looking too much into this comment... KK said nothing that I'm sure nobody in this thread is thinking... including Steelers fans.

The point here being, Big Ben is about as big a part of this rivalry as their is. Before last season (IIRC) we had never beaten the Steelers without Ben in the lineup. Now he could theoretically end up missing BOTH of our games this year. If we win this game and the other... it would serve to cheapen the feeling. We would have done nothing but beat a Pittsburgh team with a backup QB at the helm... and not a MVP candidate.

Obviously a win is a win, but a rivalry win isn't as sweet without the key names playing. Honestly, this rivalry has already seen less flare recently. Hines Ward not being around (in any capacity), Ray Lewis out, Troy Polamalu likely out, no Jarrett Johnson here, and now Big Ben isn't playing... not to mention key young players in Webb being out and Antonio Brown potentially being out. James Harrison hasn't looked like the same player this season.

This is honestly, the least pumped I've ever been for a Ravens/Steelers rivalry game now. Should be a good game still, but... it's just not the same now, perhaps GT changes that feeling. _________________

The point here being, Big Ben is about as big a part of this rivalry as their is. Before last season (IIRC) we had never beaten the Steelers without Ben in the lineup. Now he could theoretically end up missing BOTH of our games this year. If we win this game and the other... it would serve to cheapen the feeling. We would have done nothing but beat a Pittsburgh team with a backup QB at the helm... and not a MVP candidate.

The Harbaugh/Flacco regime had never beaten Big Ben before last year. We swept them in '06 with Big Ben playing both games.

Steelers have played us tough in the past couple of years when Dennis Dixon and Charlie Batch started, so them playing without Big Ben will be no cakewalk, and in PIT I would even caution against any idea that it's anything more than a toss-up. That said, I won't shed a tear if he does have to sit out. It's a shame that so many key players are missing from this rivalry game on both sides, but at the end of the day, anything that makes Pittsburgh weaker means good things for our division title chances, and that's the endgame as far as these final 7 games are concerned._________________

If he has a potential life-threatening injury if he played with that dislocated rib, I believe he should sit it out and wait for it to heal. His life isn't worth a game._________________^^El ramster^^
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"The ribs join the breastbone in the body's front which is, structurally, our chest. They join the spinal column in our back. There are ligaments involved in the structure. If the rib is completely detached from an anchor bone, it is considered a rib dislocation. If it is still touching adjoining bones, it is considered a "subluxation" as opposed to a dislocation."

In English, your ribs are connect to your spine and the sternum bone in front of your chest. The rib dislocated from the sternum bone and is moving around freely.

The sternum and ribs are connected by cartilage, it's not connected bone to bone like some people think._________________Kickers are people too